Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 03:13:23 -0600 From: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net>, Benjamin Adams <freebsdworld@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Bandwidth Monitoring program Message-ID: <200612060313.23621.josh@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <200612060552.WAA04850@lariat.net> References: <6199c3dc0612050848g16a0911dga145485ba14bf21f@mail.gmail.com> <200612060552.WAA04850@lariat.net>
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On Tuesday 05 December 2006 23:52, Brett Glass wrote: > Add a few IPFW "count" rules to count the bytes and packets. Then, > periodically harvest and reset the counters via a cron job and > write the results to a file. You can then prepare tables and charts > which are as simple or as fancy as you please, without resorting to > SNMP (which isn't secure). A little bit of code in your favorite > scripting language will do it. And of course you can output to a > graphing package, though for me a simple histogram using asterisks > has sufficient precision in most cases. > > --Brett Glass > Just curious.....but where is he going to run ipfw? I seriously doubt his router can run it, and what good is it going to do him to run it on a machine on the network if the network is switched? It's not going to be able to see any of the traffic other than what that specific machine is sending/receiving. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel
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